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Radha Basu is San Francisco-based businesswoman who provides an excellent social entrepreneurship example.
She helped to establish Bangalore, India as a technology hub in the 1980s, as she pursued her belief in the power of technology to reshape societies for the better. She worked as the CEO of SupportSoft until 2006, when she stepped down to focus more energy on social enterprise efforts. Today she works as a professor at Santa Clara University, as well as a director of the Frugal Innovation Laboratory.
She also co-founded the Anudip Foundation with her husband, and serves a a judge for various social entrepreneurship award committees. Basu believes that developing markets represent huge opportunities for innovative entrepreneurs who can apply technology to solve their unique problems. She points to the famous example of mobile technology in connecting rural India, Africa and China in ways that charities and governments failed to do.
